Alabama Liquor Agency Says No to (Cartoon)Nude Nymph on California Wine Label

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Source: Mercury News



MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A wine label showing a nude nymph is too racy for Alabama's liquor control agency, which has told restaurants and stores not to sell the product.

The label on Cycles Gladiator wine, produced by Hahn Family Wines in Soledad, Calif., shows a vintage 1895 bicycle advertising poster with a nude nymph flying beside a winged bicycle.

The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board recently sent a letter to stores and restaurants telling them not to sell the wine because the label had been rejected by the agency. Alabama liquor regulations prohibit labels that are offensive or immodest.

Hahn Family Wines president Bill Leigon says the wine has been sold nationwide without any complaints until now.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12908179?source=rss

[kenny blankenship]

1. They should change the label to a cartoon dildo

[johnfunk]

25. ... with a head shaped like Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions

... and preferably a "stars and bars" motif decorating the shaft.

New wine label motto: "The South shall rise ag'in!"

[Itchinjim]

2. Morons.

ntn.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Yet they continue to air Peter Griffin's Side Boob Hour.

Do you like this side boob?



Well, you shouldn't. Because that's MY side boob!

[Dappleganger]

4. They probably can't taste it properly anyways...

no use in wasting good wine.

[virgogal]

5. Couldn't they just get some stick-on fig leaves? Problem solved.

This type of nonsense astonishes me.

[MichaelHarris]

6. When it comes to nude nymphs

I like to judge for myself. I Googled nude nymph, I was very happy with the results.


Here is what they deemed offensive: http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/index.cfm

[dana_b]

9. they are probably offended

when/if they ever go to an art museum too. so ridiculous.

[PSzymeczek]

13. Just stock it next to

Little Black Dress wine.

[MichaelHarris]

16. Or

Panty Dropper Ale

[depakid]

7. Hell, you can't even get decent microbrew in Alabama

[chaplainM]

8. I went to Google images to see the label

...but the obscenity filter at work blocked it.

[pinniped]

10. My eyes have not seen such horror since the Starbucks coffee cup flap.

I fixed it.

[DKRC]

11. Be patient

Eventually Alabama will catch up to the decadent 1890s. Just give'em time. :eyes:

[callous taoboy]

19. Bwaa ha ha....Flappers will be turned away at the border.

:rofl:

[DBoon]

12. Hahn makes pretty decent wines

This isn't some low-quality operation making a name for itself with a racy label

Wonder what the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board would do with some of Bonny Doon's labels?

[Mimosa]

14. I see that label all the time

It is 'racy 1890s' and quite attractive.

I wonder if classic marble statues in AL are required to have fig leaves pasted over the pudendas?

[Crowman1979]

15. Why don't they just ban "Bicycle" playing cards while their at it?

Because there are nude women riding bicycles on the back of every card.

Added too that, it sucks trying to get around Montgomery, AL with a bicycle! The stoplights are controlled by weight sensors, the speed limits are too fast on the main roads and there are hardly any sidewalks.

[regnaD kciN]

17. I can understand the censorship...

...after all, you don't want to corrupt the pure and innocent little children who drink this wine!

[bulloney]

26. You mean the pure and innocent children that give Alabama some of the highest teen pregnancy rates

in the nation?

[Mari333]

18. with men like "BUBBA" Lee in charge, what do you expect

http://www.abc.alabama.gov/organization.aspx

[Stevenmarc]

20. OK so in Alabama you can't drink a risque bottle of merlot but

as long as the women are live and spinning on a pole, alcohol and nudity aren't an issue.

[csziggy]

21. They should just make them put the wine in blue velvet bags!

Ashcroft's Nude Statue /Cover up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2421980&mesg_id=2421980

You know, like Lady Justice or Chivas Regal.

[Mopar151]

22. They got no brown paper bags in 'Bama?

So, you can't buy a decent wine with a risque' label, but you can buy obscenely bad wine http://www.bumwine.com/ without the warning label it so richly deserves?

[csziggy]

23. Hey, it's that Puritan purity thing - you can kill or torture, but can't look at smutty cartoons

And getting drunk on home grown squezzings is an old Southern tradition, even during Prohibition. So bad booze is OK.

It's that liberal effete California stuff with naked fairies that is dangerous!

[lame54]

24. Does that men I can't buy this there...